strophe
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Though Brazil has earned a deserved reputation for its easygoing social relations, where class and cultural barriers break down at the first strophes of samba, the reality on the ground is sometimes starkly different.
From Newsweek • Jun. 7, 2013
To whet your appetite, I've chosen the concluding strophes to represent this week's poem.
From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2010
First: the catalogue, which seems to be completed in the first strophe with the climactic iyw 8�, is resumed after an interval of three strophes.
From Time Magazine Archive
These strophes, written by the bivouac fires, had in them the soul of battle.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
In the second I have forced myself to repeat the same rhyme at the close of each of the thirty-four strophes, which in the Italian has a very fine effect—the sound being ato.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
Vocabulary lists containing strophe
Reading: Literature - Drama - High School
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Ancient Greece: Mythology and Literature - High School
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